The Small Back Room

The Small Back Room

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  • Author: Nigel Balchin
  • Publisher: Hachette UK
  • ISBN: 1474601170
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of the Second World War. Sammy Rice is a weapons scientist, one of the 'back room boys' of the Second World War. A crippling disability has left him cynical and disillusioned - he struggles with a drink problem at home, and politics and petty pride at work. Worse still, he fears he is not good enough for the woman he loves. The stakes are raised when the enemy begin to drop a new type of booby-trapped bomb, causing many casualties. Only Sammy has the know-how to diffuse it - but as he comes face to face with real danger, all his old inadequacies return to haunt him. Can he, at last, prove his worth and put his demons to rest?


Warfare State

Warfare State

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  • Author: David Edgerton
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781139448741
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 392

A challenge to the central theme of the existing histories of twentieth-century Britain, that the British state was a welfare state, this book argues that it was also a warfare state, which supported a powerful armaments industry. This insight implies major revisions to our understanding of twentieth-century British history, from appeasement, to wartime industrial and economic policy, and the place of science and technology in government. David Edgerton also shows how British intellectuals came to think of the state in terms of welfare and decline, and includes a devastating analysis of C. P. Snow's two cultures. This groundbreaking book offers a new, post-welfarist and post-declinist, account of Britain, and an original analysis of the relations of science, technology, industry and the military. It will be essential reading for those working on the history and historiography of twentieth-century Britain, the historical sociology of war and the history of science and technology.


To My Dear Pieternelletje

To My Dear Pieternelletje

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  • Author: Bea Brommer
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004293329
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 384

To my dear Pieternelletje contains the correspondence between Pieternella van Hoorn in Amsterdam and her grandfather Willem van Outhoorn, former VOC governor-general, in Batavia, during the period 1710-1720. Numerous letters combined with contemporaneous documents offer a vivid and clear picture of VOC-history.


How to Run a Successful Design Business

How to Run a Successful Design Business

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  • Author: Shan Preddy
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351929984
  • Category : Design
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 456

The design sector has expanded rapidly in recent years, and now covers a wide range of specialist disciplines from branding and communications to product, commercial interiors and digital. Yet design firms often lack long-term vision, strategies and plans, and research from the Design Council shows that far too many suffer from poor profitability. Shan Preddy believes that the more a design firm knows about business, the more successful it will be, both creatively and financially. That's why she has gathered over 80 design-sector experts from different fields - advisors, practitioners, clients and representatives from design organisations - to provide you with information, suggestions, guidelines and thought-provoking opinions. Whether you're experienced or just starting out, How to Run a Successful Design Business: The New Professional Practice covers everything owners and managers of design firms need to know.


Prosthetic Agency

Prosthetic Agency

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  • Author: Gill Plain
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1316513203
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 289

This book addresses the legacy of World War II on male identity and reinvention. It considers some of the many ways in which popular culture of the time sought to mediate these difficult transitions, exploring films, popular fiction, memoir and biography.


Freddie Francis

Freddie Francis

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  • Author: Freddie Francis
  • Publisher: Scarecrow Press
  • ISBN: 0810892065
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 342

Freddie Francis was regarded as one of the great cinematographers of the last half of the 20th century. He won Academy awards for Sons and Lovers and Glory. This is Francis’ memoir in which he recalls working on such films as Room at the Top, Sons and Lovers, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Elephant Man, Glory, Cape Fear, and The Straight Story.


Powell and Pressburger

Powell and Pressburger

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  • Author: Andrew Moor
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 0857733443
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 369

The film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was one of the most remarkable and visionary in cinema. They made an extraordinary range of films, from The Spy in Black and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp to A Canterbury Tale and The Red Shoes. With champions like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, and revived critical interest worldwide, they now find new generations of admirers. This illuminating new book looks closely at these classic films to explore their complex relationship to national identity, and their interest in exile, borderlands, utopias, escapism, art and fantasy. Moor reveals for example how the visual imagery of the films of the Second World War question current cinematic styles and how post war films like The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman are in their highly expressive use of design, music and dance utterly international in character.


Realism and Tinsel

Realism and Tinsel

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  • Author: Robert Murphy
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 113490150X
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 275

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


The Modern Hercules

The Modern Hercules

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  • Author: Alastair J.L. Blanshard
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004440062
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 698

The Modern Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles – the Roman Hercules – in western culture from the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring the hero’s transformations of identity and significance in a wide range of media.


Andreas Hofer

Andreas Hofer

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  • Author: Luise Mühlbach
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Austria
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 290